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Several members of The North American Laminate Flooring Association (NALFA) are providing direct assistance to those in need during this crisis.

After resuming the shipment of finished products on April 3, Italian ceramic companies are now restarting production activities.

The online digital experience was the first of its kind and provided nearly 4,000 industry professionals with four days of valuable educational webinars and online networking opportunities.

The ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council (CRC) selected eight research projects to receive grants this year.

FloorFolio’s fourth patent is a continuation of the two initial US patents that protect the innovative method of manufacturing of a luxury vinyl tile/plank to an attached rubber acoustical underlayment.

Builder confidence in the single-family 55+ housing market dropped 30 points to 38 in the first quarter of 2020, according to the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) 55+ Housing Market Index (HMI).

Expenditures for home improvements to the owner-occupied housing stock are anticipated to decline in most of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas this year in response to the severe economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new projections released today by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 

The Xpress COVID Recovery Program offers immediate savings on LTL shipments of up to 60% for flooring products through the end of June 2020.

The 2020 World of Concrete Asia will be held from December 9 to 11 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.

I4F announced that following its 2019 settlement agreement with Flooring Industries (Unilin), I4F has the right to ensure that its licensees will not be subject to currently pending ITC proceedings in the United States, nor the consequences of ITC decisions, which now seem to aim towards a General Exclusion Order (GEO) for certain Unilin patents in relation to new materials products.